Ravehook

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A hooked hand tool for widening the seams of a boat to receive oakum. historical

    "2012, J. E. Fender, The Lucifer Cypher Small fires […] smoldered in half a dozen places, where the few workmen paying oakum into Hampshires hull seams with ravehooks' would periodically repair to warm themselves."

  2. 2
    a hooked hand tool used to prepare the seams of a boat for oakum wordnet

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"2012, J. E. Fender, The Lucifer Cypher Small fires […] smoldered in half a dozen places, where the few workmen paying oakum into Hampshires hull seams with ravehooks' would periodically repair to warm themselves."

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